Shruti Kant, MBBS

Shruti Kant, MBBS is a Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she has built a practice grounded in the care of critically ill and injured children, the advancement of medical education, and scholarship in simulation-based learning.

CLINICAL WORK:
Dr. Kant serves as an attending physician in Pediatric Emergency Medicine across three UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital sites, Mission Bay, Oakland, and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, providing approximately 660 hours of direct patient care annually. In addition to managing a broad range of acute pediatric emergencies, she leads an interdisciplinary simulation program embedded within the emergency departments at both BCH Mission Bay and Oakland. This quality improvement initiative brings together physicians, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and technicians to rehearse high-acuity scenarios, strengthen team communication, and identify systems-level opportunities for improvement.

SCHOLARLY WORK:
Dr. Kant's scholarly work centers on medical education, simulation, and pediatric emergency readiness. She is a longstanding collaborator on the ImPACTS (Improving Pediatric Acute Care Through Simulation) program, a multi-institutional initiative through which she has built partnerships with 18 regional hospitals and Alameda County EMS for Children to improve the capacity of community emergency departments to care for critically ill children. This work has resulted in multiple peer-reviewed publications. Her current research portfolio includes studies on feasibility of brief intervention tools in the pediatric ED, disaster preparedness in Spanish-speaking families, and an evaluative study of her workplace-based faculty development curriculum. She has presented her work at national and international conferences including the Pediatric Academic Societies, the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, and the International Pediatric Simulation Symposia.

EDUCATION WORK:

Dr. Kant is a nationally recognized educator and simulation leader. As the AME Endowed Chair of Emergency Medicine Education since 2021, she leads a departmental initiative to develop an accessible, embedded faculty development curriculum in clinical teaching for emergency medicine faculty and fellows. Informed by a comprehensive needs assessment and guided by principles of equity and inclusion, this curriculum has been deployed in the Department of Emergency Medicine and disseminated to programs such as the NYU Langone Emergency Medicine Residency. Through this role, she has grown the Academy of Medical Educators' presence within the Department of Emergency Medicine from a handful to over 11 faculty members, and has served as a coach, sponsor, and liaison connecting colleagues to faculty development pathways and the AME. She also serves as the UCSF Pediatric Emergency Medicine Simulation Director, overseeing a formal two-year simulation curriculum for PEM fellows and coordinating interdisciplinary mock code programs across UCSF's emergency departments. Dr. Kant has received the AME Excellence in Teaching Award, the DEM Semi-Annual Bedside Teaching Award (twice), and was inducted into the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators in 2020. She is a regular workshop faculty member for the UCSF Center for Faculty Educators' Simulation Certificate program and has mentored residents, fellows, and faculty across multiple stages of their careers.